If you had asked me that question after my first visit I would have laughed and said there are only 9 buffs in Kruger! (Needed buff to complete the big 5, and none to be found till almost the last day.)

But now.... I've seen huge herds near Letaba on the S46 (That's the sandroad towards Engelhard dam), again a huge herd on Mahonie loop (around Punda Maria) and on the H1-6 above Mopani.

Not posting much here anymore, but the photo's you can follow here There is plenty there.

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Hi TV - there have been sightings by forum members of herds of at least 1000. I personally have seen a herd of 900 near Satara (this count was confirmed by the TB researches at the sighting). And I believe there was a herd of about 500 at Punda Maria last night

We got stuck in a herd crossing the road on the S28. Waited more than an hour and still they kept coming. Felt like much more than 600! The H4-2 were covered in dung the next morning, we could hardly drive.

There is always buffalo at Mopani. If you stay at Mopani for a week or so you get so use to the buffalo they become like your morning coffee.

I must admit, during my trip in June I was beginning to wonder what had happened to the big herds of buffalo that I recalled from the 70's and 80's - up until we went north to Shingwedzi we only saw the odd two or three together.

However, about 20 klicks south of Shingwedzi on the main road we came across a herd of between 300 and 400 on the move - it was great to see.

“ Every year elephants were becoming scarcer and wilder south of the Zambezi, so that it had become impossible to make a living by hunting at all. ” FC Selous 1881

But keep in mind that Buffalo actually live in family groups. Within that huge heard, there is a lot of smaller units, that keep together. When environmental circumstance dictate the herd will split in to smaller units.

I have had a wonderful experience with a big herd while we were walking near Sandrivier one day. When they spot you, they do the usual buffalo thing ... they come and have a look! We watched them for a while and they watched us.

When we decided to move on (we were clearly more interesting to them than them to us!) they started following us. This is a natural reaction ... keep the predator in sight so that it cannot surprise you.

Anyway, there us 10 were walking followed by say 250 - 300 buffalo. It was then that we walked in to three rhino. So we had to wait, rhino in front, buffalo at the back.

Eventually the rhino moved of, and we went through a gully, which persuaded the buffalo to remain behind.

It was actually wonderful ... no aggression ... only different species interacting in a mutually curios fashion!